Pious Poet Pillows

"Repent" "Give alms" "Resist temptation" "Pray for me" "Fasting" "Acts of service" "Sacrifice" "Abstain" "You are ashes" "You are dust" "No meat"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

John Bunyan

Red Letter Days - A declaration of love in public

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Dating an English Major

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."